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A Journey Into Vibrational Healing with Lauren Schenck
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Discover the transformative power of Vibrational Healing with our special guest, Lauren Schenck, who takes us on a journey through her life-altering experiences with yoga, sound, and crystal therapies. Once a dancer, Lauren's pivot toward holistic wellness came when she embraced yoga, a practice that not only helped her navigate the tumultuous waters of divorce and single motherhood, but also led her to unlock a profound connection with vibrational energies. Our discussion reveals the fascinating science behind how these energies can dramatically shape our well-being and subtly influence our daily interactions. Join us as Lauren illuminates the paths to a more centered and balanced existence, sharing personal anecdotes of resilience and the restorative power of sympathetic resonance.
When your body and spirit crave rejuvenation, tune in to learn about the Sanctuary, an upcoming self-love retreat in Philadelphia that promises to empower women through the art of yoga, meditation, and more. We delve into the restorative world of Hatha yoga, highlighting its pivotal role in healing and alignment, particularly for those new to the practice. Whether you're seeking flexibility, healing from physical injuries, or just curious about alternative healing modalities, this episode offers a treasure trove of insights. As we wrap up our conversation, I find myself inspired to weave yoga into my life, and for those also looking to embark on this journey, Lauren Schenck stands ready to guide you. #yoga #meditation
"Powerful episode diving into sympathetic resonance, yoga, meditation and so much more! There's a whole other world out there that many of us never explore to quiet our minds and find peace within. Lauren takes us on her own journey of finding alternative methods of healing and how it transformed her when she needed it most" - Brad Weisman
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From real estate to real life and everything in between, the Brad Wiseman Show and now your host, Brad Wiseman. All right, Thanks for joining us again tonight. We have a really cool guest in here today. Actually, her husband was in here first, but she's actually we're going to say we saved the best for last. Justin's going to love that, but we have Lauren Shank here in the studio. You know, Justin was in here not too long ago. It wasn't that long ago, but I got to tell you I'm really excited about the show. I was reading up on all the different things you're doing and you are a holistic wellness coach, yoga teacher, crystal healer, sound healer, meditation enthusiast. You do all this stuff, but you didn't always do this stuff. No, Okay, let's go. Let's go into that. So welcome to the show by the way.
Speaker 2:Thank you, happy to be here.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here, so let's go into. You know, obviously you didn't. You weren't born during this stuff. You didn't come out and go oh, crystals, or oh, I want to do yoga, Right. So how? What brought you to this, this work that you do?
Speaker 2:Well, it was very gradual, it was one thing at a time. Actually, the yoga came first because I grew up as a dancer from the age of three. Through college I danced and when I graduated I came back home to Pennsylvania and I just needed a way to move my body and all the adult dance classes were, like in Philly, too expensive. It just didn't fit into my life. So I just happened to take a community college Hatha yoga class and from that moment on I was hooked.
Speaker 1:You were hooked, hooked. Why were you hooked?
Speaker 2:It was a different way to move my body and express emotion and I found myself more centered. Dance was always my escape. It was, it was a meditative experience for me, and and yoga became in adulthood that that method of meditation for me Gotcha.
Speaker 1:Well, it's being connected with your body and dance. Definitely, you know your body when you're dancing. I mean, if you don't, you're probably not going to be a good dancer, right? Yeah, cause you need to know what's going on. Okay, so you got into that first, but then there was a time in your life so did were you into that? You got divorced in 2014. I did.
Speaker 1:And not that we want to bring up bad things or whatever, but whatever it happens, it happens. Yes, been there myself, so very experienced in that. Hugo, it's not that funny. Sorry, we're going to laugh through the pain, right, yeah, I guess so, yeah, no, but there's always better on the other side, absolutely, that's the way I look at it. So in 2014, you had two small kids, you know, was that when you started really getting into the other things, like crystals and nutrition.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, nutrition I was always into, but I didn't have the opportunity to have the education I wanted to, just because of the complications in my life at the time and when we left me and my kids um, I started to look towards other ways to heal I was a hundred percent solo mom. My kids were three and one, I was working full time really tough yeah.
Speaker 1:My wife and I said all the time we have kids, I never had kids when I was married before. Time really tough. Yeah, my wife and I say that all the time we have kids I never had kids when I was married before. But we always say I can't imagine doing this job, just one of us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's hard, I did it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and all power to you, man. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah so. So I was looking for ways to keep myself together. Keep your sanity gotcha um, and I was living out in seattle at the time when I got divorced, and so there are a lot of metaphysical shops out there it's a very woo-woo center.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, seattle's this the capital?
Speaker 2:woo-woo well I would say portland, portland, probably more so this is true.
Speaker 1:This is true, seattle's, there's a lot of it going on. Yeah, there's a lot of it in the pnw.
Speaker 2:So I started getting more into crystals and things like that and just spending my time doing more yoga, doing more meditation. I didn't really get into the sound healing until way later. So it was just a gradual progression of adding more things, and what I realized is that everything that I was adding was vibrational. The yoga itself is vibrational, moving your body, nutrition, the you know, the nutrients in your food it's all vibrational and then you add in, you know, crystals, which is vibrational and sound healing vibrational.
Speaker 2:everything that I do has had a vibrational element to it and that's why and what is vibrational do for us as human beings? So it affects everything that we do. Everything has a vibration. Everything in this room has a vibration, and you and I talked about it before the show started. The way that I describe how crystal healing works but, it's all of. Vibrational healing is basically everything has a vibration.
Speaker 2:We go down to the anatomy of an atom. It's like middle school science. The protons and neutrons are all moving around vibrating in the nucleus and electrons whirring around the outside, so everything has a vibration.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then there is this concept called sympathetic resonance. So that is basically. I like to use the idea of a tuning fork. You've heard this before If you strike a tuning fork in a room and there's another tuning fork in that room, it will start to vibrate with the same frequency of the original tuning fork that is struck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's scary, that's weird.
Speaker 2:But it happens with everything. You know. When you walk into a room and somebody is in a great mood, your spirit lifts up. If somebody is in a really bad mood, you start to get a little edgy, and so this sympathetic resonance happens with every object in our space. Edgy, and so this sympathetic resonance happens with every object in our space. And so when we get near things that have a good vibration, we feel start to feel good. If we get near things that have a bad vibration, we start to feel bad, because our body is trying to match or harmonize with that frequency, that is, we're coming in contact with and that's interesting too, because you know that has a lot to do when you think about it, mirroring the way you just said, that it never hit me that way.
Speaker 1:You notice, if you go into a room and you do this, within probably about a minute, everybody's going to do this and I'll tell you, if you ever do that as an experiment, when you have about four or five people around you talking, it will crack you up in your head, right, I'm telling, even if you just do this, within a couple minutes, everybody will have touched their face at some point. Yeah, it's really crazy, right, but that's mirroring, that's wanting to be. We want to be like the other person, we want to be on that same plane.
Speaker 2:Yes, cause we're trying to harmonize with what's going on Absolutely yes, exactly you know sometimes it happens in the negative way. When your partner is in a really bad mood, are you really joyous?
Speaker 1:Nope, not usually, and if I am, I'm going to hide it, because last thing I want to do is be happy when she's not. She hates this show, by the way. No, I'm kidding. Just because I say stuff like that, she goes oh, what did that mean?
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm going to hear it from Justin.
Speaker 1:I'm sure too. Yes, exactly, so, no, no, that's really incredible. So we all, we're, basically we're drawn to that and we end up tend to mirror that. That uh vibration.
Speaker 2:That's there, that motion so the different crystals in your space have different vibrational properties right so that's why there are so many different crystals for different uses. It's there that frequency is evoking something from your own frequency to match that level.
Speaker 1:And I think the thing that makes it and we'll bring this up the thing that makes it, um, I guess, hard to believe, is we always think that because something's solid, there's no molecules moving. I'm serious, we do. We look at water as being something that moves, but it's molecules, it's things that are together making up that liquid, and we tend to think when we see this this is a little elephant that I got as a gift today from Lauren, which is really, really cool. And tell me what this is. So that is rose quartz. Rose quartz. Why does it seem like it just stays cold? That's weird. Did you have it in a freezer?
Speaker 2:No, quartz crystals kind of have a cold temperature for them.
Speaker 1:Do they? Do they have a colder temperature?
Speaker 2:They do, and sometimes I've noticed with some clear quartz it gets colder the more I hold it, and I like to think that that's the healing properties going into me and leaving the crystal itself.
Speaker 1:Interesting, so this is the rose.
Speaker 2:So that's rose quartz. And what did you say? This is love, self-love. You said a lot, very much for self-love. It's also for all kinds of love. So rose quartz is your general, your, you know, standard, basic love crystal.
Speaker 1:And she gave this as a gift for the studio, for us to have and for me, and that's beautiful. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. So let's go. So we did the crystals, let's go into. We might go back into the yoga a little bit too, because I have some questions for that, but let's go into these bowls, these crystal singing bowls. So I never really knew about these things until I saw it on YouTube that you had on there.
Speaker 2:Okay, yes, saw it on YouTube that you had on there. Okay, yes, so the singing bowls are something that. I it's kind of my favorite modality right now and it's the most recent addition.
Speaker 1:Favorite. What did you call it? Modality, Modality.
Speaker 2:Yeah, different healing.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, gotcha, Gotcha, yeah, a fancy word for method. I like that word. Hey, hugo, I'm going to start using that. I think I like that word Modality. Got it, got it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that word modality got it. Got it. Yeah, so it's interesting. But I have a set of seven bowls and they're all attuned to the different notes for each chakra which we can get into, wow, and you just sort of bang on them and let the vibration do its healing work, right, like I'm not a musician at all, I have no musical talent and so I'm just over there.
Speaker 1:She's. That's a disclaimer.
Speaker 2:I guess, like you're not gonna hear, like brilliant, so when I so, when I heard you, on YouTube.
Speaker 1:I should know that, right. Yeah, definitely, I'm just banging on my goals and seeing what happens, but it's.
Speaker 2:It's really a fun way to sort of like entrain your brain and get your body out of fight or flight and into this, you know, anxiety.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's a good one for anxiety, excellent. So you use those. Now, when you do this stuff, do you go like somebody says, oh, I want to be, use the bowls for yourself. Or do you say, hey, come on, let's, let's hit some bowls together.
Speaker 2:Or I do it for myself, I will record it for others and I've actually so, my daughter, who's almost 11 oh my god, same age as katherine.
Speaker 1:That's right, they were in dance together.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly she loves to play the bowls, so I've kind of trained her on how to give me a sound healing session. And if you're not using your children to do these things for you?
Speaker 1:crazy. You should, you should you should definitely. Oh, I love it. That's great. How does my kids don't do that? I'm going to work on that.
Speaker 2:That was the solo mom in me. I would have my son run his trucks up and down my back when he was little as a massage.
Speaker 1:I love that idea. So the heel, so the singing bowls, which I love. What is a tincture? Bell tincture. So there are these metal bells that are tied together on a string and you just ding them together.
Speaker 2:It's a very yogic practice. People use it to open and close yoga practices or meditations.
Speaker 1:I love tincture bells. Yeah, very cool. Now the tuning forks. We talked about that. The rain what is a rain stick Is this if we need rain like a drought, we have, we need to no, no, I'm not doing a rain dance. No rain dances you go.
Speaker 2:It's.
Speaker 1:It's a it's a what that is. See, I know some of this stuff. All right, let's go back to yoga, because yoga is something I did do for a little bit, okay, and I think what it's very intimidating because of doing the even if you, let's just say, I'm online and I looked up a couple of things from my lower back, I'm always worried that I'm doing it the wrong way Right and I hate that.
Speaker 2:It's intimidating.
Speaker 1:It is. It's intimidating because sometimes, well, some of the things that I see, configurations that people are in, I mean there's, if I went into that you'd be calling 911 because they would have to take me out in a stretcher with this body.
Speaker 2:That's not your typical yoga class.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay. So I want, do you do like a beginner class?
Speaker 2:Do a beginner class. Hatha yoga is the best. It's slow, it's gentle and that I taking a class is really good because then you know that you're getting good alignment cues from the teacher Right, I mean a lot of people use videos on YouTube and otherwise, which and I do as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to put your arms your legs and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Yes, as your alignment correction.
Speaker 1:Yes, because if you do it wrong, it could be detrimental to you. You could just like any physical activity. Exactly.
Speaker 2:It's good to take a class to get the alignment. What was interesting for me is, as I mentioned, I transitioned from dance into yoga and, as you know from Catherine, dance is very much turned out.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, so true, and yoga is very aligned.
Speaker 2:So I've had to retrain my body. Yeah, right Because you're used to ballet and all that. Everything turned out and so I had to retrain my body, and doing the yoga actually healed a lot of my dance injuries.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So it's very good for your physical health.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I know that and that's why I got to get back into it, because I have lower back issues and it's flared up a bit over the last eight months or whatever it is, and it's interestingly enough, a physical therapist had told me that keeping your feet when you're sitting down, keeping your feet straight ahead instead of letting your legs open up, is actually what you should do, because what he said is is happening is when you will do that. It's not good for your back. It's creating, yeah, strains and it's moving things that shouldn't be there. Your hips are out of whack. So the yoga thing is definitely good and you're certified to do that, or whatever you have.
Speaker 2:I was trained 200 hour yoga Amazing.
Speaker 1:Incredible. So, out of all the things that you do, which one is your favorite?
Speaker 2:So, out of all the things that you do, which one is your favorite? I mean, I'm going to have to go back to the OG of yoga.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, yeah. So that one there it's just kind of just keeps you completely centered.
Speaker 2:It does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Cause it's breathing, which is it's also a meditation right, it is a meditation for me. So yoga is kind of more all encompassed it is, it does everything.
Speaker 2:I call my yoga mat my magic carpet.
Speaker 1:Very cool.
Speaker 2:Because when I get on it everything, thinks of itself, everything's better. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 1:And it's been around for what? Thousands of years.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Incredible Yoga, are you? Going to done it, but I want to see you should try it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think you should try it.
Speaker 1:And then the other thing was I wanted to ask you this I've been told also from my back try acupuncture. Have you ever done that? Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 2:So I did it once. Okay, it was okay.
Speaker 1:Sounds like she didn't like it, it was fine. I did it one time and I bled out of every hole.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't that bad, it's just, I didn't feel anything from it. Right, I'd much rather do acupressure.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I'm just a, I'm a touch person, I'm a tactile person. I love getting massages. Yeah so the sticking of a needle versus, you know, the pressing of a hand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just totally different. I'd rather do the acupressure. So you never did. So what about Reiki?
Speaker 2:So fun fact I was activated Reiki level two many, many years ago, I think, like 2008.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I did not start practicing.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I do it on myself sometime and sometimes on my kids. Um, that was when my life started to get topsy turvy, so some things had to take a backseat, but it keeps coming up for me.
Speaker 1:People keep asking me about it.
Speaker 2:And so.
Speaker 1:I knew a couple of people that did it at one point and they were really into it. Um, I never had it really done to me, but I know that they were really into it. I know it has a lot to do with energy and what's around you and what and lots of the kind of feel what's around you by the heat and things like that.
Speaker 2:Well, and a lot of a lot of Reiki practitioners are intuitives, like mediums.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, they can feel yeah.
Speaker 2:So when I get Reiki done, usually it's distance from a friend of mine, who is a very, very good intuitive.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I like Reiki with a side of. This is what your spirit guide said to me.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, gotcha. Oh, that gets a whole different world there. It does, wow, incredible. So let's talk about. You. Have this really cool thing coming up. It's called the Sanctuary, a self-love retreat for women. So I won't be going, hugo can't go. We were not invited June 21st to June 23rd in Philadelphia. Tell me about what goes on there. It looks awesome because the place you picked is in Philly and it's this old church.
Speaker 2:Tell us about it so well the old church is.
Speaker 1:it's called the Deacon and it's in like graduate hospital.
Speaker 2:Yes, Graduate hospital neighborhood and it is a converted church, as you said it is a like an encapsulated hotel, so you can you have to rent all the space at once. There's eight rooms and a central meeting area, and I chose that because Justin and I hosted our first retreat there and it's such a beautiful space and there's plenty of room for everything that I want to incorporate. And so sanctuary is going to be yoga, it's going to be meditations, it's going to be sound bowls, it's going to be crystals all the stuff that we've been talking about but also workshops and deep discussions focused around this so important relationship we have the one with ourselves. I believe that self-love is something that everybody should nurture and cultivate and maintain, and especially women.
Speaker 2:this society is not as kind to women. They are expected to produce constantly and give of themselves to the point of exhaustion and then give some more after that. And so in my journey, self-love was kind of the last thing that I worked on, and I realized after that it should have been the first thing that I worked on, Because everything adds up from there right? Yes, I mean, I believe self-love is foundational to-.
Speaker 1:But you found it I did. Because of those steps. Yeah, so maybe the journey was okay, and everybody's journey is a little different. Let's just put it this way how about? This way, I can go one way to the mall, you can go another way to the mall, but we both got to the mall.
Speaker 2:Correct, right, yes, so that's good. Oh, there was a lot of journeying in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sure you did, I mean I'm sure, I'm sure I mean I can't imagine, like I said, as a single mom. I love this as workshops and deep discussions. I love that Like this is sounds like very healing.
Speaker 2:It's intended to be, I want it to be almost like a spa weekend, but focused on doing that inner self work.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 2:And the reason I wanted it to be just women it's not just because of how society is women, it's because I think that we can create a space of more vulnerability, absolutely Having it be just women.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Versus if we open it up, because sometimes you know, you won't share the other gender, and it's true.
Speaker 1:You don't share?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely You're not going to share as much, and so that's why I wanted it to feel like a safe like spa.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, I agree with a hundred percent. And yeah, cause it's on your supported sharing and vulnerability. Yeah, I mean that's awesome. Yeah, you're definitely right about that, cause we just did guys weekend at the beach. The talk at guys weekend is completely different than if the girls were there.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, can only imagine Absolutely.
Speaker 1:That's so funny, but is there anything else that you wanted to add to this? How do people find you to go to the sanctuary?
Speaker 2:So I'm all over the socials, but my website is Lauren shankcom.
Speaker 1:Okay, I don't know if you want me to spell that out, but you can go ahead, yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause shanks a little different. It is, it is Well, it's new for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's S C H. I always have to look at it there you go.
Speaker 2:I have a song in my head.
Speaker 1:There you go, there you go. My wedding was just a year ago, by the way. Yeah, congratulations, thank you. Is it the one year anniversary?
Speaker 2:April 1st.
Speaker 1:Unbelievable Well that's great, and I remember that it was all over social media and you guys look great, very, very cool. So maybe we'll have you and Justin here together sometime. Ooh, that'd be fun. That'd be really cool. Right, awesome, very cool. Is there anything else you want to share?
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Anything else coming up now? No, that's all right, awesome. Thank you for coming in. I appreciate it so much. I love this stuff. I got to tell you what I have to get into doing yoga. I'm going to have to do it. I need. I need to do it because I don't stretch, I don't do any of that stuff and that's the worst for your back right. Yep, amazing. There we go, hugo. We're going to start doing yoga right here in the studio right here on the table.
Speaker 1:That'd be tough, we might fall off, all right, but that's about it. Thanks so much, lauren, for coming in. I appreciate it. Thank you All right, there you have it. If you want to do any kind of meditation, or you know yoga or anything, get in touch with her. She's certified in all these things, knows what she's doing and she can help you out and you'll be much better off, I'm sure. All right.
